Tower Hill

Tower Hill is a complex city square northwest of the Tower of London in Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is one of the oldest parts of London, and the hill was inhabited by the Britons before the Romans built a village atop the hill; the Roman village was burned down by the Iceni during their revolt in the 1st century AD. In 675 AD, the Anglo-Saxons built All Hallows-by-the-Tower church near the hill, and the Tower of London was built in 1066 at the end of the Norman Conquest. Public executions of high-profile traitors and criminals such as Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Bishop John Fisher, Sir Thomas More, George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, Thomas Cromwell, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Guildford Dudley, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Archbishop William Laud, and James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth were often carried out on Tower Hill. In 1894, Tower Hill was incorporated into the County of London, and it is now included in the Tower Hamlets borough.